Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 12:26:16 +1100 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au> To: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: runaway/misbehaving process Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9912261222170.29914-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au> In-Reply-To: <19991225231108.C17780@comcen.com.au>
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On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, aunty wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 10:15:16PM +1100, Rowan Crowe wrote: > > > > It's been stuck in this "short term" state for at least 12 hours. kill > > -HUP, -TERM, -9 etc does not work, presumably because it's > > uninterruptable. > > This is probably not the answer but hell, why not mention it. Have you tried > adding the -l switch to ps to look at the parent IDs? Sometimes I can string > them together to work out where to start killing from for best results, > e.g. getting rid of a process that some other process is waiting for. Thanks for the suggestion :), but still no luck... 2187 ?? Ds 0:08.06 nntpcached: waiting for connections (nntpcached) 74058 ?? D 0:06.44 nntpcached: unknown@news.sensation.net.au [alt.binari Both the main and child processes are stuck in the infernal "D" state. ps -axl and top also show something interesting: 2187 news -22 0 20212K 384K vmpfw 0:08 0.00% 0.00% nntpcached 74058 news -22 0 20212K 488K vmpfw 0:06 0.00% 0.00% nntpcached vmpfw? I'm guessing it's something to do with virtual memory. man -k and a search of the top and ps man pages don't turn up anything. Guess it's time for a reboot. :-\ Cheers. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://www.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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